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The officers were working an unrelated disturbance call at the complex when they saw smoke about 5 p.m. and investigated. Johnson carried a child to safety while Cruz helped evacuate an adult and two children from a unit filled with heavy smoke, police said.

Neither officer wanted any attention, saying they only did what any other officer faced with the same situation would do, police said.

Four units were heavily damaged by the fire but it could not be learned late Tuesday how many residents were displaced.